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Vacation Reflection: Part One

Just recently, I (and my two brothers) took a baseball-themed vacation, the first part of which took us to Dyersville, Iowa and the Field of Dreams movie site. Here are some more pics of the experience:

It was an amazing stop no matter how you look at it. As a movie buff (with Field of Dreams topping my baseball movie list), rare is the movie set still intact for such a long period of time. I mean, this was the exact same field that Kevin Costner stirred our emotions on and Ray Liotta channeled Shoeless Joe Jackson.

As a baseball lifer, the experience was exactly as James Earl Jones described it…

You pull up on a long dirt road surrounded by cornfields as far as the eye can see. Then, out of nowhere, is this quaint little diamond with cornstalks framing the outfield. I hit some balls, played catch in the infield, threw a few from the mound, and wandered around in the corn. Not a bad afternoon for a baseball romanticist. The entire time I was there, cars continued to pull in and out, with license plates from Texas, New York, and other faraway stops from the cornfields of Iowa.

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